I may have been away from my desk for a couple of weeks, but readers of the Georgia Straight would never have known, as my regular columns, “Trigger Happy” and “Techno Logic” published anyway.

Here’s a rundown of what I wrote about in the last few weeks:

June 19

• Having fun in the sun with high tech
• Reviews of Dementium: The Ward, Downstream Panic!, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Napoleon Dynamite: The Game, Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice, and Silent Hill: Origins

June 26

• Feature interview with Joel DeYoung of Hothead Games
• Review of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One

July 3

• Profile of interweb writing and community site Protagonize